Natasha (68 page)

FOX CONTRACT
: Los Angeles Superior Court Case #531936,
In the Matter of the Contract Between Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Natalie Gurdin
, filed 7/10/47

NO CONCEPTION OF MONEY
:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

HEDDA USED TO
: “The Natalie Wood Story-Child Star To Glamor Girl,” Hedda Hopper, 6/26/55,
Chicago Tribune Magazine

INFUHR MEMORIES
: Dr. Ted Infuhr to SF, 6/2/99

NATALIE’S FAVORITE SCENE/GLAMOUR GIRL
: 7/7/56
Los Angeles Mirror-News

NATALIE WAS DELIGHTFUL, ADORED LANA
: Mrs. Frank Arrigo to SF, 6/26/99

CALLED HER LANA, LANA CRIED
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99

LANA A NERVOUS CHILD
: 8/67
Photoplay

LANA WAS JEALOUS
: Maria Gurdin to Sue Russell for
Star Mothers
, 11/85

MUSIA LIVED FOR NATALIE
: Constantine Liuzunie to SF, 6/14/99

NICK’S LAST-GASP EFFORT
: Nina Arrabit to SF

NICK’S DREAM
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99

FAME NEVER WENT TO HER HEAD, WOULDN’T GO IN RIVER, MARIA’S THIRD-DEGREE ON BOYS
: Ed Canevari to SF, 5/28/99

NATALIE WOOD GREGSON TO C. S. LIUZUNIE, 7/23/70, COURTESY OF CONSTANTINE LIUZUNIE
Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99

MARIA SAID WOMEN WERE CATTY
: Randal Malone to SF, 1/25/00

FOX SCHOOL WAS EMPTY
: “Daisy and Madame X,” Harrison Carroll,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 4/25/65; 7/23/67
Examiner

DRIFTWOOD
REVIEW
:
Film Daily
, 11/6/47, “Driftwood”

FASCINATING DISCOURSE
:
Hollywood Reporter
, 3/2/48, “Farm Film Loaded With Fresh Humor”

TIERNEY SUSPENDED, CRAIN REPLACED
: Academy of Motion Pictures Library file,
Chicken Every Sunday

SYDES’ MEMORIES
: Ruth Sydes to SF, 5/4/99

MARIA’S GRANDIOSITY
: Olga Viripaeff to SF; 9/57
Photoplay;
11/57
Movie Show

ACTRESS/DANCER
: Randal Malone to SF

MARIA TOLD STORIES
: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99

MCCARTHY WANTED TO MAKE
: “Houston’s Term as City of Stars Draws to End,” Mildred Stockard,
The Houston Chronicle
, 3/19/49

CHAPMAN WAS DIFFICULT
: Ted Donaldson to SF, 6/19/99

GREEN PROMISE
INFO
: Ted Donaldson to SF; Jeanne LaDuke to SF, 6/21/99; Marguerite Chapman to SF, 1/20/99

NATALIE RECALLED HUGE PROPELLERS; MOTHER CRIED “MY CHILD”
: 1978
Preview

THEY WERE TELLING HER HURRY
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99

SOMEBODY PULLED LEVER, DON’T REMEMBER THEM FISHING ME
: “Late Actress Was Terrified of the Ocean,” Bob Lardine,
New York Daily News
, 12/2/81

IT WAS SO TRAUMATIC
: Mart Crowley, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

IT WAS HER SECRET
: Jeanne Hyatt to SF

MARIA DIDN’T SUE; THOUGHT DOCTORS WOULD TALK
: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/7/99 & 5/24/99

DIDN’T LIKE DOCTORS
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn to SF

NATALIE HAD NIGHTMARES
: Leslie Bricusse to SF, 8/25/99

COMBINATION OF INJURY AND FEAR; MARIA READ PALMS
: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/10/99

DEDA WOULD TALK
: Natalie’s eulogy for Nick Gurdin

NATALIE BLAMED MOM FOR WRIST
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99

MARIA’S SUPERSTITIONS
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/24/99

NATALIE FOUND IT DIFFICULT
:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

COULDN’T REMEMBER 10 TO 12
: 10/84
McCall’s

MISSING OUT, LONELY
: “The Natalie Wood Interview,” Alis Loewell,
Los Angeles Free Press
, 8/2/74

FELT MORE COMFORTABLE WITH GROWN-UPS
: Natalie Wood on
Tomorrow
, 2/14/80

OLGA’S WEDDING, PICTURE FROM NATALIE
: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 7/11/99

NATALIE’S NIGHTMARE OF NO IDENTITY
: “Natalie Wood’s Kiss of Life,” Douglas Thompson,
Daily Mail
, 4/7/79

NO CLEAR PERCEPTION
: Natalie Wood interview excerpt, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

O’HARA’S
FULLBACK
MEMORIES
: Maureen O’Hara to SF

MACMURRAY’S COMMENT
: KCOP “Tribute to a Very Special Lady”

WEARING FALSE EYELASHES
: 7/7/56
Los Angeles Mirror-News

HOUSTON HAD MORE NATIONAL FIGURES; HUGHES PERSUADED ZANUCK
: “Torchlight Parade Will Precede ‘Green Promise’ Premiere,”
Houston Chronicle
, 3/18/49

BALLYHOO, SCHMALZ
: 3/9/49
The Hollywood Reporter

PLAYS THE ROLE WITH SENSITIVENESS
: “‘The Green Promise’ Tells American Story,”
The Houston Chronicle
, 3/19/49

OUR VERY OWN
: Jane Wyatt to SF, 1/7/99; Ann Blyth to SF, 4/9/99; Joan Evans Weatherly to SF, 6/15/99

NOT A CHILD STAR
: “The Youngest Veteran,” Alexander Walker,
London Standard
, circa 11/30/81; “Natalie Wood,” Earl Leaf,
Teen
, 12/61; “A New Year for Natalie Wood,” Mike Connolly,
Screen Stories
, February 1962

NO FILM STARS
: “Time-Check on Natalie,” Pauline Peters,
London Sunday Times
, 4/27/80

CLIMBED OUT WINDOWS
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99

ANN DORAN
: Ann Doran to SF, 5/26/99

MARIA’S PLANS TO LEAVE NICK
: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99

NATALIE SAID CALL THE DOCTOR
: “Natalie Wood: Child of Change,” Gereon Zimmermann,
Look
, 8/13/63

FAMILY DEPENDED ON ME
: 10/79
After Dark

DISCOVERED THE HEARTBREAK
: 2/11/79
New York Daily News

DO ANYTHING FOR PART
: Jeanne Hyatt to SF

NATALIE SAID SHE’D DO ANYTHING
: Gigi Perreau to SF, 8/6/99

GIGI PERREAU’S RECOLLECTIONS
: Gigi Perreau to SF, 8/6/99

DON ZOUTE’S RECOLLECTIONS
: Don Zoute to SF, 8/17/99

ROBERT BANAS’ RECOLLECTIONS
: Robert Banas to SF, 7/6/99

EVERYTHING IS COPY
: 2/15/97
Financial Times

NATALIE CRIED DURING
JACKPOT
: 7/7/56
Mirror-News

NATALIE TURNED AND STARED
: “I Married Bob,” Natalie Wood,
American Weekly
, 5/18/58

WISHED SHE COULD MARRY HIM
: Natalie Wood on
Donahue
, 12/76, Show #11156

JUST A STARING KID
: “Nat and Bob-Together Again,” Joyce Haber,
Los Angeles Times Calendar
, 11/25/73

NATALIE WANTED TO GO TO SCHOOL
: “Happy Birthday, Natalie,” Beverly Linet,
Modern Screen
8/58; “I’m Not the Girl He Married,” Natalie Wood,
Screen Stars
, August 1959

WANTED TO BE LIKE OTHER KIDS; BIGGEST SHOCK
: 8/59
Screen Stars

FALSIES; COSTUME CHANGE; DIDN’T BELONG
: “Natalie Wood,” Arthur Whitman,
Pageant
, June 1967

NOTICED HOW MUCH OLDER
: “Natalie Wood: Still Shining Bright,” Philip Oakes,
London Sunday Times
, 12/28/69

LAUGHED AT HER
: “Natalie Wood: Symbole 1962 de L’Amour,” J. V. Cottom,
Ciné Tele-Révue
, 4/12/62

POWDER THREW LANA
: Dr. Ted Infuhr to SF; Olga Viripaeff to SF, 5/24/99;
Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister

CAN’T GET BILL HOLDEN
: Devery Freeman to SF, 9/6/00

WORE HER OWN DRESS
: Paramount production records,
Dear Brat
, Special Collections, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

WENT GAGA
: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99

IN AWE; WARM AND SMILING
: Leilani Greenwood Overstreet to SF, 9/15/99

ALREADY A STAR
: Rochelle Donatoni Vukonich to SF, 10/6/99

DYING TO DO THEIR THINGS
: 6/69
Screen Parade

THE WAY SHE LOOKED AT YOU
: Helen MacNeil Moriarty to SF, 10/18/99

MARY ANN MARINKOVICH RECOLLECTIONS
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99

HAD TO ADVANCE HER CAREER
: Robert Hyatt to SF, 5/19/99

NATALIE LOOKED YOUNGER
: Leilani Overstreet to SF

NATALIE AT SOCK HOPS
: Leilani Overstreet to SF; Helen MacNeil Moriarty to SF, 10/18/99; Rochelle Donatoni Vukonich to SF

COULDN’T GO TO BATHROOM
: “Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner Get It Together Again,” Thomas Thompson,
Cosmopolitan
, August 1975

NATALIE WAS INTENSE, MARIA RUTHLESS; FELT SORRY FOR LANA
: Gigi Perreau to SF, 8/6/99

DIDN’T LIKE IT
: “The Recycling of Natalie Wood,” Carolyn See,
McCall’s
August 1979

ACTING WAS DIFFICULT, SELF-CONSCIOUS; LANA HAD A HARD TIME
:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

STUDIO WANTED HER
: 12/28/69
Sunday Times

LOOKED SAME IN JUNIOR HIGH
: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99

TURN OUT HOMELY
: “The Faces Of Love,”
Seventeen
, November 1957

SHE’D DROWN IT, HAD TO HAVE A SPECIAL CHILD; NATALIE WORRIED HOW PEOPLE PERCEIVED HER; LANA A MUD FENCE; LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES
: Lana Wood to SF, 8/19/99 99, 100 BAD BOY; NATALIE WANTED WHAT SHE COULDN’T HAVE; JIMMY WAS A ROGUE: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/11/99, 3/3/00

NATALIE COULDN’T DATE IN JUNIOR HIGH
: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99

PREGNANT IN BOY’S LAP
: Olga Viripaeff to SF, 6/12/99; Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99

SPENT LIFE IN PIGTAILS
: 1/56
Modern Screen

HER REMARKABLE SINCERITY
: “‘Blue Veil,’ Wyman Win Human Victory,” Edwin Schallert,
Los Angeles Times
, 11/17/51

JIMMY’S MEMORIES
: Jim Williams to SF, 12/21/99

ACT TWO

GAGA WITH JIMMY
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF, 11/4/99

MYSTIQUE, JIMMY HAD A TEMPER
: Jacqueline Eastes Perry to SF, 12/12/99

JIMMY WILLIAMS’ MEMORIES
: Jim Williams to SF, 11/17/99, 12/21/99, 12/23/99, 1/2/00

COULDN’T STAND IT
: “Natalie’s Teenage World,” Barbara Henderson,
Filmland
, July 1956

DATED COLLEGE BOY
: 7/56
Filmland;
8/57
Photoplay;
“How Natalie Handles Boys and Older Men,”
Modern Screen
, February 1957

NOBODY TOLD ME WHOM TO DATE
: “Knock on Wood,” Bridget Byrne,
Women’s Wear Daily
, 11/26/79

MARY ANN MARINKOVICH’S MEMORIES
: Maryann Marinkovich Brooks to SF

WENT FOR A COKE
: 9/57
Photoplay

HELD HER SKIRT
: Natasha Gregson Wagner, “Intimate Portrait: Natalie Wood”

IMPRESSED BY BURR
: Faye Nuell Mayo to SF

IMPRESSED BY TAYLOR
: Robert Blake outtakes

CROSBY CHOSE WYMAN
: “Leave It to Jane,” Hedda Hopper,
Chicago Tribune
syndicate, 1/13/52

NATALIE BEAT O’BRIEN
: Maria Gurdin to Phyllis Quinn